The move could affect plans to execute two prisoners in March. "This case has always been about Louisiana’s execution ...

Could the death penalty be used as a punishment in Missouri for people charged with first-degree crimes of statutory rape or ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A 55-year-old female inmate died early Thursday morning in her cell at the Clay County Detention Center. The cellmate of Wende K. Routh told detention center staff Routh was having ...

The Clay County Sheriff's Office says that they're investigating an inmate death that occurred this morning, February 20, ...

An investigation into an inmate who is believed to have passed from natural causes has opened as a separate one draws to a ...

Despite no support for claims that it is a more humane method of execution, Arkansas is looking at using nitrogen gas to kill inmates.

The death of a handcuffed and shackled inmate who was attacked by officers at a New York State prison has been declared a homicide after an autopsy report, authorities said. New York Governor ...

Hasson Bacote was among a group of 15 death row inmates whose sentences were commuted to life without parole last year by Gov. Roy Cooper in one of his final acts in office. That means the ruling ...

St. Clair County State’s Attorney James Gomric’s office on Thursday issued first-degree murder charges against a teenager from Missouri in connection with the shooting death of a Dupo man on Monday. A ...

An aerial view of Moberly Correctional Center in Randolph County (Missouri Department of Corrections photo via Facebook). James Pointer’s life sentence in the Missouri Department of Corrections ended ...

He was pronounced dead 24 minutes later.Nelson was the first Texas death row inmate executed since Robert Roberson’s Oct. 17, 2024, execution date was delayed in what would have been the first ...

Marion Bowman Jr also died by lethal injection. He was sentenced to death after he was convicted of shooting and killing a friend. Police found the victim's body in a burned out car in 2001.